(a.) To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.
(a.) To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.
(a.) To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow.
(v. i.) To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors tested their own technique, using transplants or implants of corium, fascia, dura mater and polyester net, internally in the tendons, fastening them with an external cross suture.
(2) A woman who was 30 weeks pregnant was sitting with a three-point seat belt fastened in the front passenger seat of an automobile that was involved in a head-on collision.
(3) Total radioactivity, including the volatile part of the solvents were registered by autoradiography of dried, evaporated tape-fastened sections.
(4) In order to more effectively separate the walls, a protector was applied consisting of a soft polyethylene tube, whose ends were fastened to the cervix uteri and remained there for 3-4 weeks.
(5) A penile problem that physicians are confronted with in the emergency room is entrapment of the foreskin by a zipper fastener.
(6) Mohamedou Ould Slahi: “smart, witty, garrulous, and curiously undamaged” Another team inside the plane dragged me and fastened me on a small and straight seat.
(7) It is made light-impermeable through the use of nylon hook-and-loop fasteners.
(8) Given that the economy is kind of coming back right now, I just didn’t understand why trade was so prominent this race David Lawrence, vice-president, AlphaUSA “Given that the economy is kind of coming back right now, something that is so key to the economy [as trade], I just didn’t understand why it was so prominent this race, and not some other issue,” said David Lawrence, vice-president of AlphaUSA, a fastener manufacturer based in suburban Detroit.
(9) Sheets of oil paper fastened vertically to two wires at a height of 60 cm above the ground at a distance of 20 cm one from another (barriers) and sheets in the form of "flags" (Dergachova and others, 1973) were used simultaneously.
(10) One group was exposed to the regular hospital program and the other group had, in addition: a mock-up demonstration for the mothers on the correct method of fastening the baby into the car seat and the car seat into the automobile seat; written handouts of how to use a car seat with an infant; a physician's order for the mock-up demonstration; and a physician's order to be discharged in a car seat.
(11) Erection, increase in circumference as well as rigidity, can be measured with a simple device consisting of a calibrated felt band with a sliding collar fastened to 1 end.
(12) A supporting harness is attached to the mask by use of three flat straps connected by Dot fasteners.
(13) Prevention includes feeding with human milk in prematures with slow increase of partial and total volumes, early initial fastening in cases of asphyxia and careful and close surveillance of high-risk newborns.
(14) Based on its membrane topology, it has been suggested that MotB might be a linker that fastens the torque-generating machinery to the cell wall.
(15) Spontaneous "overnight" deflation of inflatable prostheses is rather uncommon, but we have had a 5.7% incidence of it in a 24-month period in which we used implants with a suturable tab and fastened them to the subjacent fascia.
(16) In case of a transverse position of the fetal head, a special fastener on the forceps makes it possible to use an excentric handle on the traction hook of the Kielland forceps and thus render possible rotation of the fetal head from the transverse position.
(17) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
(18) Over a 0.009 inch flexible tip steel wire a diamond-coated brass burr fastened to a flexible drive shaft that rotates and tracks was advanced.
(19) Granulation tissue grows through the prosthesis which is fastened well to the connective-tissue cuff forming around it.
(20) The extension of the tracheostoma is achieved by means of an parallel incision which widens the trachea with the acid of 2 tough threads on each side, which are fastened to the clavicle.
Hitch
Definition:
(v. t.) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
(v. t.) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded.
(v. t.) To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
(v. t.) To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.
(v. t.) To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer.
(n.) A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.
(n.) The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.
(n.) A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance.
(n.) A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.
(n.) A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc.
(n.) A small dislocation of a bed or vein.
Example Sentences:
(1) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
(2) One bleeding of 200 ml from a wounded intercostal vessel ligated with a clip was the sole operative hitch.
(3) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
(4) Successful reconstruction of a neoureter was performed easily with the Boari bladder flap coupled with nephropexy and a psoas hitch.
(5) Follow-up observations revealed the presence of VUR in 2 patients who underwent surgery by the initial form of Boari's method and in 1 patient who underwent surgery by the psoas-hitch method.
(6) It is suggested that spontaneously occurring cryptic lesions that are themselves unable to induce the SOS system are subject to translesion synthesis under these conditions and trigger a burst of hitch-hiking mutations that are therefore effectively umuC dependent.
(7) They – we – had come by bus, plane, train, car and hitch-hiker's thumb to demonstrate to ourselves and a watching world that there was a better, more righteous America than the Birmingham of Bull Connor who had set the dogs and fire hoses on black children.
(8) Nine patients underwent adjunctive procedures in addition to bladder augmentation, including a Young-Dees-Leadbetter procedure in 4, an artificial urinary sphincter in 3, transureteroureterostomy and psoas hitch in 1, and a Mitrofanoff procedure and bladder neck closure in 1.
(9) We can’t complain if we’re not involved.” Buhari, the first opposition candidate with a realistic chance of defeating a sitting Nigerian president, was accredited without a hitch using the card reader in his hometown of Daura, in northern Katsina state.
(10) When I asked “What about the women?” I was told I could hitch a ride in a team car and watch.
(11) In most instances, DM are noncentromeric and distributed by a 'hitch-hiking' mechanism at mitosis; in one colcemid-resistant SEWA line, however, we have shown that the DM carry active centromeres.
(12) Combining the bladder-psoas hitch Boari-flap technique makes it possible to replace the entire ureter.
(13) George Osborne has had to go to China to get them to bail out this project, hitching our nuclear energy future to the Chinese state for 100 years,” he said.
(14) All this meant it had finally found a consistent identity and could hitch a ride as digital radio’s takeup grew.
(15) Nine patients with injury to the pelvic portion of the ureter successfully underwent the psoas-bladder hitch procedure and tunnelization as an antireflux measure.
(16) Simon Burnton is taking over for a while, you can email him at simon.burnton@the guardian.com Updated at 8.15pm BST 8.10pm BST Herrera is still on, just a technical hitch AS English (@English_AS) Man Utd's reps have just left the LFP offices without leaving Herrera's buy-out clause, apparently they need to sort out more paperwork.
(17) The acting director of the Australian Antarctic division of the department of environment, Jason Mundy, said the rescue was carried out without a hitch and it was a relief to have all passengers on board the Aurora Australis.
(18) Wing Commander Matt Radnall, 42, the very last British serviceman to depart, said: “To see the Afghans step up to the plate without any hitch or delay, as briefed, as rehearsed and as expected, it was just fantastic.” From that moment of the helicopters’ departure, the base was under Afghan command – a prospect that many believe will lead to the Taliban attempting to breach its 24-kilometre perimeter.
(19) The psoas hitch procedure is a simple and effective alternative in the management of distal ureter length defects.
(20) Continuity and good functional result was achieved with a Boari flap and psoas hitch to the renal pelvis.